Under his policy of «low intensity conflict», designed to avoid another Vietnam-esque debacle, the US dramatically increased
military expenditures in order to fund anti-government rebels in Nicaragua, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Afghanistan (including Bin Laden).
Not exact matches
Yet when we are confronted with the need to apply the social teachings of the prophets to a particular measure before Congress
in our time — for example, to
expenditures for
military defense, or a farm bill, or fair employment practices — the directives are less clear.
In February 1792, British Prime Minister Pitt justified the reduction of military expenditures and held out hope for more reductions to come by declaring: «Unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present momen
In February 1792, British Prime Minister Pitt justified the reduction of
military expenditures and held out hope for more reductions to come by declaring: «Unquestionably there never was a time
in the history of this country when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present momen
in the history of this country when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment.
In this era,
military security became our highest priority, our greatest
expenditure, and our scarcest commodity.
For instance, organizations trying to assist Haitian and Salvadoran refugees to avoid repatriation, or organizations urging boycott of banks doing business with South Africa, or organizations counseling young people not to register for the draft, or organizations protesting increased
military expenditures, or organizations demonstrating against nuclear power or against mineral exploration
in wilderness areas, are all
in danger of losing their tax exemptions for violating «public policy.»
The same question is then applied to other matters: to U.S. support of Israel; to U.S. opposition to the election of Hamas
in Palestine; to the history of U.S. involvement
in Iran over the past century; to the invasion and reconstitution of Afghanistan; to the depiction of events
in the Middle East by U.S. media; and to the
military expenditures of the U.S. government.
Countries
in Europe,
in contrast, which he leaned on U.S.
military protection via NATO
in the early days after WWII, and which lacked the resources to participate more directly
in the Cold War, normalized a lower level of
military expenditure, and refrained from making nearly as great an economic commitment to fight wars
in the Afghanistan and Iraq as the U.S. did as a leader of those coalitions.
The lifting of EU (and some US sanctions)
in January 2016 is expected to boost the Iranian economy and may lead to a rise
in military expenditure.
Military expenditure was a hot subject
in 2017 when Donald Trump criticized NATO countries (other than US) for not «paying a fair share»:
But a separate bill is being proposed to make a similar pledge
in defence, one that makes sure we maintain Nato's target of two per cent of GDP spent annually on
military expenditure.
US clearly dominates the world when it comes to
military expenditure, both
in % of GDP and nominal value.
You can see that Iran expends 2.5 % of its GDP with
military expenditure (just a bit more than the global average of 2.3 %), and the specific value (
in 2015 US$) is US$ 10.265 billion.
According to this report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, «Trends
in World
Military Expenditure, 2015»:
Japan does have its own
military, it's number 8
in the world by
military expenditure, number 18 by the number of active
military personnel.
The
military is well trained and better armed due to Burundi having the highest
military expenditure of any country
in the East African region and support from the US and Belgium; over 2.39 % of Burundi's 2012 Gross Domestic Product.
In 1893, for example, the $ 165 million spent on
military pensions was the largest single
expenditure ever made by the federal government.
Military expenditure percentages are currently lower
in the EU than
in US.
[3] Reid gained considerable praise for the review; with some commentators going so far as to describe his success
in cutting
military expenditure at the same time as winning over the defence chiefs as «brilliant».
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), worldwide
military expenditures have been growing annually for the past 15 years, and between 15 and 20 major armed conflicts — yes, wars — are
in progress as you read this.
Despite expanding the data collection years to 2011 and 2012, Greece and Canada still had incomplete information
in the UIS database and they were the two OECD countries for which I used the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's (SIPRI)
military expenditure database to create estimates.
This version allowed me to use their current USD tab to obtain
military expenditure data for all countries with education
expenditures and enrollments from 2013 — which was the most current year represented
in the database.
The first step
in estimating education spending was to create an education spending to
military spending ratio for primary and secondary grade spans
in the analysis.vi To create the ratios, I looked at all the countries that had data for education spending for primary and secondary education and
military expenditure figures.
Determine what additional information they will have to collect
in order to meet the law's new requirements (e.g., new subgroups such as children
in foster care, homeless children and children of
military families; school quality and school climate data, pre-school data and school level
expenditure data.
Our «Foster Home» program has a two-fold purpose which includes assisting our deploying active duty service members and veterans
in specific situations with volunteer «foster homes» within our foster home network and the «
Military Pet Assistance» (MPA) Fund for assisting our «Homeless Veterans» with veterinary care
expenditures and temp pet boarding
expenditures.
If you include the true ecological and economic costs of U.S. energy policy (including
military expenditures)
in the fossil fuel bill, that is even more obvious:
Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and
in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S.
military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).
It's time for a candidate to sack up and champion the diversion of resources from wasteful
military expenditures to much needed domestic infrastructure
in order to combat the true challenges of the 21st century.
The hugely transparent subsidization of renewables against the stealth subsidization of fossil fuel energy mainly the huge
military and security
expenditures diluted
in budgets accounts.
It seems to have been wealthy Saudis... Factor
in the costs of the war
in Iraq and massive
military expenditures to protect oil supplies and windmills look cheap at twice the price.
So, cutting US
military expenditure roughly
in half would mean 21.4 % of global spending would be from the US — $ 3.424 billion.
This budget aims at 5lacs clear excemption limit by 2 years to come, The reduction
in year from 3 to 2 for long term income calculation helps people
in the bracket of5 to 10 lacs fora clear margin on future disinvestment.Secondly the increased
expenditure on
military and for infrastructure will yeild good results
in terms of defence personnel upkeep and general growth
in revenue of govt.The demonitisation has started yeilding results but for the bad weather on the anvil.I am hopefull of a better near to expectation budget next year.
With the major cryptocurrency exchanges having strengthened regulations for large purchase or trade for bitcoins,
in the form of stringent KYC (Know Your Customer) verification for larger withdrawals and with exorbitant
expenditure towards
military sanctions, legal acquisition of Bitcoins is an arduous task for North Korea.
As for your question, my goal is to have enough cash flowing passive income from rental properties to supplement my
military retirement
in 8 years without reducing my families
expenditures.